Norms are excellent for maintaining discipline and clarifying expectations. They provide a reference for behavior as they define routines and procedures. While in the past a quick review was all it took as students knew and understood good manners, today more perusal and careful examination are necessary....

Norms are excellent for maintaining discipline and clarifying expectations. They provide a reference for behavior as they define routines and procedures. While in the past a quick review was all it took as students knew and understood good manners, today more perusal and careful examination are necessary....

Interstellar travel is no more difficult than planetary travel. A craft is accelerated in an extreme near vacuum or outer space where there's no resistance to the craft's velocity. The solar system and interstellar mediums have material dispersed through it and it's extremely and exceedingly tenuous. The interstellar medium have non-homogenously on average 2 atoms per cubic inch and on average 900-1,000 talcum powder sized particles per cubic mile. That's serious vacuum. Interstellar travel has eight problems which are really non-problems because they're simple and so easy to solve. Only because humans want the impossible has it seemed so difficult and the - fact - of the matter is that interstellar travel is accomplishable using 3 horse power if you know - real - physics....

"I think computer viruses should count as life... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." - Stephen Hawking - I thought twice whether to include this quote in my article, but the temptation of including my favourite quote on computers was one that was difficult to resist. Scroll through the list of computer quotes on any website, and you would find plenty of witty and sarcastic ones....

It is the slowest moving planet also a judge among planets and gives results as per the deeds effects and influences are felt with greater intensity and for longer periods than any other planet. Saturn is favorable for people born in the signs owned by Venus, and evil to those born in the signs owned by Mercury....

Most people might agree from a study of history that the British Empire was in many ways rather more successful than the French, but the French excelled in one important area: they taught their colonial subjects how to bake bread. Those who know Ghana well know how difficult it is to find bread that tastes anything like it should, while in Francophone West Africa, as in Vietnam, crisp long loaves are everywhere available....

The wood carvers of Ashanti Region, Ghana, produce a range of attractive traditional products that are sold to tourists and exported to craft shops in Europe and America. Some of the most popular are elephants, produced in a wide range of sizes, the hand holding an egg, a symbol of good governance, and most popular of all, the fertility doll with a large flat disc head and tiny body. All these artefacts are routinely exported to the UK, but so is cocaine from South America, and sometimes the drug is concealed within a hollow space inside the wood....

Today, billions and billions of stars dazzle the Universe with their fierce fires, looking like a sea of glimmering rhinestones sparkling in the bewitching, beguiling darkness of space. But, in the distant future, the stars will all go out, the planets and their moons will vanish, and even the black holes will finally evaporate away--and all that will remain, as a testament to what once existed, will be an immense Void of featureless Nothingness. In August 2015, an international team of astronomers studying more than 200,000 galaxies, announced that they have measured the energy generated within a large swath of space more precisely than ever before, and that this represents the most comprehensive assessment of the energy output of the nearby Universe. The findings were presented in August 2015 at the International Astronomical Union's XXIX General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii, and they confirm that the energy produced in a section of the Universe today is only about half of what it was two billion years ago--and this fading is occurring across all wavelengths from the ultraviolet to the far infrared--showing that the Universe is slowly dying....

Ghana and Vietnam are both classified by the World Bank as lower middle-income countries with similar levels of Gross National Income (GNI) per capita but they are very different in many respects. One area in which the contrast in cultures is most pronounced is in the field of education, Ghana having derived an essentially western system from its British colonial past while Vietnamese education has more in common with China. They share one factor in common, however, and that is insufficient resources to satisfy the aspirations of the majority of the people....

It was Ancient Mariners that first recounted tales of sea monsters engulfing whole ships, monstrous waves, or other fascinating descriptions of disaster at sea. Until just recently no solid evidence of any of these descriptions ever existed. But like most tales of gigantic sea monsters and other visions of impending doom though have been pretty much dispelled....

The retention rate for online schools is low and there are many reasons why students discontinue their degree program, from the cost per credit hour to school policies and the quality of the courses offered. Instructors have little control over many of those factors but what they can help with is the classroom environment that they are responsible for maintaining. With every class students are at risk for failure because of the nature of a virtual environment and interactions with others. New students have the greatest risk and the most challenging learning curve. When students take their first class it is a time when their perceptions and expectations meet the reality of working in an online class. Every subsequent class requires adapting in some manner, to a new instructor and set of requirements. This creates a risk or possibility for students to fail....

One of kids' favorite activities at summer day camp, drama classes offer loads of benefits to kids of all ages. From boosting self-confidence to learning to work cooperatively and improving social skills, theatrical education is a fun-filled way to learn and grow. Kids at day camp, after-school programs and community theaters learn and grow while making new friends, developing new skills and having the time of their lives....

To carry out the planning work systematically, professionally, and rationally, etc all the relevant data must be documented well. Such an attitude would facilitate its execution within a specified time limit. Thus plans or blue prints do reflect or show the systematic procedure to carry out the desired work!. The mining industry is the only industry which deals with higher amounts or quantities of waste than the required one....

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first prime minister, president and one-party leader, was unhappy with the port of Takoradi being two hundred miles west of his seat of power in Accra, so he constructed a new harbour at Tema, a small fishing harbour only twenty miles to the east. Fishing Harbour Road runs along the coast east from the new harbour and the old fishing harbour to end at a cove with a curving sandy beach. But this is not a potential tourist attraction because the view is dominated by the enormous rusting hulks of five ocean-going vessels stranded and abandoned for all time....